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What Doesn’t Sell at Nonprofit Charity Auctions

8/30/2019

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When planning your charity auction, you want to source items and experiences that people will actually want to bid on. This relies a good deal on who your target audience is, different groups bid on different things, after all. But there are some items that tend not to sell well, regardless of your audience.

Art is too subjective to do well at your typical charity auction. You run the risk of no one in attendance loving the piece enough to bid on it. At charity events, artwork rarely sparks a bidding war. Most of the time artwork will sell to the one person who wants it, if it sells at all. Even if you have the right professionals to evaluate the artwork, it’s probably not worth including art in your auction.

An exception to this is if your nonprofit works with the art community. In that case, your audience would naturally include those more interested in acquiring pieces of art.


Clothing and jewelry are similarly subjective, though often far less expensive than a piece of art. Physical items of clothing are a particularly difficult sell because they rely on someone being the proper size and finding the item appealing.

​Again, there are exceptions to this. The famous
Wine Women & Shoes events make incredible amounts of money each year on the premise of clothes and shoes. But, this is a highly specialized event and what works here is not going to translate well to a typical nonprofit auction.


Instead aim for these items:

  1. Trips. Trips are a no-brainer at charity auctions. Aim for trips that are all-inclusive, or bundle hotel rooms with airfare and an experience at the trip destination. And always look for trips that attendees would likely not be able to access on their own. We’re talking once-in-a-lifetime, exclusive experiences. One of my favorite sources for trips is HGAFundraising.com. They offer amazing packages at literally unbeatable prices, guaranteeing your nonprofit a huge return on your investment. 
  2. Food and Wine. Food and wine are the juggernauts of nonprofit auctions. They always sell. Wine often sells for far more than retail rate. Load up on restaurant experiences and local wines whenever possible.
  3. Experiences. Tickets to events: sports games, the opera, the ballet, etc., are all great options for any charity event. Many times the people attending your events don’t want for things in their everyday lives. Offering experiences rather than items encourages your guests, who may not want to bid on a physical item, to get in on the action. 

Generally speaking, when sourcing items for a charity auction, aim for items that have a broad appeal. You want as many people as possible bidding on each item. Trips and experiences are always your best bet, especially if you can get your hands on some truly one-of-a-kind experiences that your guests aren’t able to get elsewhere. And whatever you do, stay away from clothing items that rely on sizing.
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Sexual Harassment at Charity Events

8/26/2019

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Sexual harassment at charity events is something we don’t talk about enough in this field. It happens all the time.

It’s a horrible situation especially because, when I’m mic'd up for an event, I can’t chew out the human scum lobbing these inappropriate comments at me.


Unfortunately, older men are the worst exhibitors of this behavior.


They put their arm around you and pull you into a hold like you are their wife or girlfriend. It’s deeply intimate and incredibly inappropriate. And there’s nothing you can do. You are representing the nonprofit in that moment, you can’t pull away or tell them off. You have no recourse.


Men have interrupted my auctions, not to bid on items, but to ask me to sell them my panties.


People have gotten up to interrupt me, mid-auction, and explain to me how they think I should be doing my job.


I spent a good portion of last auction season pregnant. I’m small, so when I’m pregnant I get really big. Each time I have come back to work after having a baby, I receive gross comments about my body and how thin and attractive I am now that I’m not pregnant. It’s gross, it’s rude, and it’s inappropriate. I wish they noticed the auction items as much as my post-pregnancy weight loss. 


I’m already preparing myself for all the comments I’m going to get when I show up to auctions this year looking like my normal, non-pregnant self. Also, thank you for remembering how good I am at my job, instead of just what I look like. I love this job and I’m damn good at it, it would be nice if people remembered that for a change.


I’m not sure if male auctioneers suffer similar mistreatment at events. I would not be surprised to learn that they do.


I have thought about asking the nonprofits I work with to do something to combat sexual harassment at events. If it’s happening to me, it’s definitely happening to other people. But, I’m not sure what they could, or would, do about it. Will they risk losing a major donor who just happens to also be a creep? Or will they let that behavior slide because they can’t function without those major donations? Unfortunately, I think I know the answer. 


Comment below and let me know what you think nonprofits can/should do if a donor behaves inappropriately at a fundraising event.

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The Worst Donor Thank You Ever

8/23/2019

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Recently, I received an email from an organization that I give to regularly. Ostensibly this was a thank you email, but you wouldn’t know it. I considered including the email in this post, but I don’t want to embarrass the party that sent it.

The email in question was over 300 words long, and “thank you” appeared only once, near the very end of the email. The person who created this email was clearly not interested in thanking me for my donation. In fact, they spent the beginning of the email talking about how giving to the organization makes them feel.


They were also not interested in personalizing the correspondence because everything about this email screamed form email.


Now, I’m not against using form emails. In fact, used properly form emails can save your organization a lot of time. But, you must put in the time to personalize every single email you send, especially thank you emails. This can be accomplished through a simple mail-merge process.


When personalizing thank you emails at least three things must be included:


  1. The donor should be addressed by name. 
  2. You should make reference to each donor's specific philanthropic interests. 
  3. You should mention at least a couple ways your donors dollars are being used. 

In the case of this email, the sender listed off three ways in which my dollars might have been used, none of which were the reason I give to this particular organization.

Finally, there’s an obvious typo near the end of the email. It should go without saying, but all materials produced by any organization should be proofread before being sent out. 


When it comes to thanking your donors, the details matter. Your email should be uniformly formatted and free of typos. It should address your donor personally and include references to their specific philanthropic interests. And most importantly, it should say thank you early and often.

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Minor Donors: Your Unsung Heroes

8/19/2019

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80% of your donations come from 20% of your donors.

Everyone in the nonprofit world knows this rule.


But not everyone remembers the other side of this rule: 20% of your donations come from 80% of your donors. 


It’s easy, even tempting, to overlook these 80% because they don’t donate as much as major donors. After all, there are only so many hours in the day, your time is better spent tending to your major donors, right?


Wrong.

Does this group’s lower capacity to give make them less worthy of your time and attention?


Of course not! 


I challenge all nonprofits to stop ignoring their minor donors. 


Too often, minor donors feel marginalized and rejected by the nonprofits they support because they do not receive even a fraction of the recognition that major donors receive. 


To create long-lasting donor relationships and increase donations, nonprofits must put more effort into recognizing their minor donors.


A great place to start is by creating giving societies for your long-term, minor donors. Start with donors who have been contributing $500 a year for twenty years or more.


**If your organization is small and $500 is considered a large gift, adjust that number down to fit your organization. Giving societies work for any donation level.


Recognize these donors at all of your special events, just like you would with your major donors and honorees. Include their names in your annual report. Thank them at every opportunity.  


Giving your minor donors love in simple and easy ways costs your organization almost nothing and it means the world to your donors. After all, $500 a year over twenty years is not an insignificant amount of money for most people.


There are dozens of unique and creative ways to help this group feel vital and appreciated by your nonprofit so that they will continue giving for years to come. 


Here are a few other ideas to try:

  • Host a special event just for giving society members 
  • Send personalized thank you letters 
  • Hand out special name tags at major events to distinguish them from the crowd
  • Interview them about why they care about your nonprofit and publish these interviews in your newsletter and on your website
  • Record these interviews and release them over social media 
  • Use giving society members as speakers at your events

Encourage giving society members to recruit their friends to volunteer and donate to your organization. Harness their enthusiasm to increase your reach and build your donor rolls.

Minor donors who give year after year are vital to the longevity of many nonprofits. Don’t ignore the donations and volunteer hours contributed by this group. Creating a giving society for your nonprofit’s minor donors is a great first step towards maintaining a healthy relationship with your minor donors and encouraging others to start giving each year as well.


How does your nonprofit show appreciation for your minor donors? Let me know in the comments.

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My Time as a Miller Girl Made Me a Kick-Ass Fundraiser

8/16/2019

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When I moved back to Minnesota in 2006, after three years of working on board a Carnival cruise lines ship, I was young and inexperienced. I had a difficult time finding a job because I couldn’t figure out how to spin my experience into something appropriate for a resume. When I did manage to land an interview most people wanted me to get them a deal on their next cruise. I was constantly asked about all the crazy things people imagined we got up to on board the ship.

A few months into my job hunt, I saw an ad in the paper for a promotional company. I sent in my headshot and resume, and within two hours I got a response. The email invited me to a group interview at my local Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant. It sounded odd, but I had nothing else to do, so I went.


It turns out I was interviewing to be a Miller Girl. I had graduated from Northwestern University four years earlier and I never pictured myself promoting beer as a job. But, it paid $30 an hour and I was broke. Little did I know, my time as a Miller Girl would help me build skills that I use everyday as a fundraising auctioneer.


I learned how to approach people without it being awkward and uncomfortable. Sure, I had a lot of experience doing this on the cruise ship, but this scenario was totally different. In a bar I couldn't be sure what mood people were going to be in when I approached them, and I had the very tricky goal of convincing people to stop drinking the beer of their choice and switch to Miller Lite in order to improve company sales. 


Approaching people you don't know is awkward enough. Approaching people you don't know in an dark bar is super awkward. Approaching people you don't know in a dark bar while wearing skimpy clothes requires a fearless attitude. 


Through trial and error I perfected my method of walking up to complete strangers and initiating conversation. What worked best for me, and what still works today, is opening up the conversation in a natural honest way. When I'm meeting a donor I don't know I simply walk in, introduce myself, and ask them how their day is going. I share a story about myself, something which is true and fairly mundane. This puts people at ease and gets them to talk about themselves. Once the first four minutes of conversation are out of the way, the rest flows naturally.


I learned how to be a good listener. Chatting with tipsy/drunk people usually leads to lots of listening. Most people just want to be heard. When they find a good listener who asks open-ended questions, their stories just come pouring out. 


As a Miller Girl, I heard a lot about people's relationships, their jobs, their cars, their problems, and the Vikings. As a fundraiser, I hear about people's passions, visions, and dreams of making the world a better place. I ask questions about why they give to particular nonprofits, how they got involved with philanthropy, and why they're interested in making a difference in their community. Listening has resulted in more relationship-building conversations with donors than it ever did Miller Lite sales.


I got comfortable doing whatever it took to get the job done. Miller had tons of promotions going on each month. Sometimes these promotions were games or giveaways. Oftentimes, they required asking people to do things they might not be comfortable doing: taking a survey, playing a trivia game, singing a song, or doing a dance. I had no idea how useful this skill would be to me. 


When I started working at my first nonprofit, I quickly put this skill to work. When I needed to call someone, I did. When I needed to have a conversation with a donor or board member, I did. When I was asked to run icebreaker games and board meetings, I did. I never said no. These days it takes a lot to make me uncomfortable.


I learned how to motivate others. Convincing brawny Minnesotan men to switch from drinking their beer of choice to Miller Lite is no easy task. It requires lots of excitement, energy, and enthusiasm, characteristics that are important whether the aim is getting people to try a new drink, attend a fundraising event, join a board, or make their first donation. The ability to motivate others is of paramount importance in the world of fundraising. It's the skill that I am hired for most often, my energy and ability to motivate groups to give is second to none.


I learned how to keep an open mind. I usually worked at big, chain restaurants like Buffalo Wild Wings, Champs, Dave & Buster's, etc. Only rarely would we work at small, local bars. I remember one particularly cold night when our last stop was a small bar called The Nook, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I was tired, I was cold, and my feet hurt. The last thing I wanted to do was go to some dive bar. We pulled up and the bar was literally the size of the kitchen at my parents house. I dreaded walking through the door. 


It was one of the most enjoyable evenings of my short-lived Miller Girl career. The people were friendly and fun. Instead of treating us like pieces of meat, they invited us to sit down, share their baskets of fries, and watch the hockey game. As a fundraiser, keeping an open mind about donors, corporations, and your coworkers is super important. 


Never in a million years would I have thought that my time as a Miller Girl would translate so well to my career as a charity fundraiser. It just goes to show that every job is an opportunity to hone your skills. Even something as seemingly unrelated as product promotion can give you ample experience working with the public and dealing with awkward situations, two things that are necessary for all professional fundraisers.

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Keep Your Planning Committee Focused on What Matters: Fundraising

8/12/2019

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Most of my clients have committees tasked with leading, or assisting with, the event planning process. This is the case despite the fact that, if you ask, most nonprofit professionals will tell you that overseeing a committee is one of the hardest parts of their job.

Imagine, if you will, a circus with twenty different and unique monkeys who are all very talented but who are also all very determined to focus on the wrong thing. Instead of performing in the big tent they are eating popcorn, climbing an audience member’s head, and spraying paint on the walls. 


Why are they doing these things? 


Because eating popcorn is a lot more fun than performing.


When left to their own devices event planning committees tend to focus on the easy stuff first, leaving the hard stuff for last. This makes sense, they just want to do the fun stuff. They want to go to food tastings, decide on color schemes, and pick out tablecloths. 


Everyone likes to plan parties, no one likes to fundraise. 


Don’t get me wrong, tablecloths, color schemes, and menus are decisions that need to be made if your event is going to be a success. But these are not decisions that need to be made by committee. You don’t need thirty people to pick out tablecloths.


So, what should your event planning committee be doing?


Planning committees should be deeply involved in making the guest list and recruiting people to attend the event who have both the capacity to care and the capacity to give. 


Committee members should be following up on recruitment efforts. If voicemails have been left, they should be following up with emails. If emails have been sent, they should be following up with a phone call. 


They should be soliciting items and experiences for any live or silent auctions taking place at the event. 


Committee members should be soliciting potential sponsors. 


They should be passing on any helpful, pertinent rumors about members of the community and their capacity to give/interest in your organization. Committee members are your eyes and ears in the community.


Set the expectation that your committee members will help your development department (or development person!) do the actual work of reaching out to and engaging with potential donors prior to the event. People need to know what they are getting themselves into from the beginning. Your committee’s job is to help the development team make sure that not only are there a plentiful number of butts in seats on the day, but that the right butts are in those seats. That means people with both the capacity to give and the capacity to care. 

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For more on committees, take a look at this post about keeping committee members engaged at fundraising events.
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Increase Your Silent Auction Revenue with Mobile Bidding

8/9/2019

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I have had a lot of success with mobile bidding technology and silent auctions recently. 

If you are unfamiliar with mobile bidding technology, it’s software that allows people at your silent auction to bid on items using their phone or a tablet.


Here’s how it works.


Set up your silent auction the way you normally would. Display your items on tables, arranged in whatever way works best for your nonprofit and event attendees. 


Each item should be displayed with an item number and description, but don’t put out those paper bid sheets! 


Instead, your guests will peruse the auction in person and then sign-in to the auction online using their phone or tablet. All the bidding takes place electronically. 


Attendees can even set max bids for the items they bid on and the program will continue to bid for them until the max bid is reached. At which point, your guest receives a text message telling them that the max bid has been reached and offering them the choice to increase it if desired. They can also choose to receive text message alerts when they are outbid on an item.


What I really love about this technology is that it allows you to keep the silent auction open longer than you typically would. 


At most events, the silent auction closes before dinner. This is necessary because it takes the staff and volunteers a lot of time to process all the bids and paperwork involved in a silent auction. 


With mobile bidding technology you can comfortably leave your auction open until the rest of your live auction activities have concluded. And there’s less work for your staff. No more checking and validating bids by hand.


A Caveat
You should know that your nonprofit will likely not see an increase in silent auction revenue the first two years you use mobile bidding technology. All technology has a learning curve and it’s going to take your employees, volunteers, and guests some time to get familiar with it. However, in the third, fourth, and fifth years after you implement this technology your silent auction revenue should really start to take off. 

Even if it doesn’t, I recommend that nonprofits everywhere get on board with mobile bidding technology. Donors are getting younger and younger. Before you know it millennials will be your primary donors, and millennials love technology. 


Mobile bidding technology is a game changer, allowing nonprofits to keep their silent auctions open later and remove some of the stress on already taxed nonprofit staff. It may seem intimidating at first, but give it a try. You won’t regret it.

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Bombing On Stage: It Was My Ego’s Fault

8/5/2019

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When I bomb on stage, typically the audience can’t tell. It’s only my ego that is bruised.

I work with my fair share of celebrities. I try to be humble and not brag about them or post photos about them on social media. It’s a perk of my job - which I love. I do not take jobs simply because of the celebrities involved. I take auctions because I believe in the organization and their work. 

Except one time. I let my personal desire to interact with a group of high-net worth people and gain exposure get in the way. I made the poor decision to take a job I knew was a mistake. I let my ego take control. 

I’ll tell you what happened. 

The Client
Last year I was approached by a very popular, fancy magazine focused on high-end products for wealthy people. This magazine features 20-million-dollar yachts the way Target features t-shirts. Its pages are filled with ads for $100,000 dollar watches, cognac, horses and all the other toys that the wealthy spend their millions on. Their target audience is the 1%. The magazine had its heyday in the 80’s and recently rebranded to become more appealing to younger audiences. 

This magazine contacted me about raising money for a third party nonprofit organization, a practice that is more common than many people realize. It’s the upper-class equivalent of Safeway asking you at checkout if you’d like to donate a dollar to help the homeless.

The Promise
I was told that if I helped them meet their fundraising goal of $200,000, I would be given a feature in their magazine in addition to my fee. 

This had the potential to be HUGE for my business. The exposure alone was worth its weight in gold. Not only that, I was going to have the opportunity to meet several of the biggest names in the culinary world at this fundraiser.

I couldn’t say no.


What followed was an experience so overflowing with red flags and flashing neon warning signs that any sane person would have walked away. But I couldn’t say no to my ego. I’m great at my job and I wanted that exposure.

Red Flags
The first thing that should have sent me running the other direction was the nonprofit itself. I have a hard and fast rule when deciding which nonprofits to work with: If I learn about an organization and I am not moved to make a donation myself, I will not take on the client or the special event. I need to have the capacity to care for the nonprofit’s mission. If I don’t, I can’t speak in an authentic voice to help others understand the importance of the organization as well as tug at their wallets. 

This nonprofit is run by two prominent chefs. It’s mission is to help younger chefs rise through the ranks and achieve Michelin star ratings. I’m not much of a foodie, give me a good burger and fries at the local greasy spoon and I am happy. This organization wasn’t one that I would personally donate to, nor could I see a real benefit to the community.  

Furthermore, this fancy magazine had no connection to the nonprofit they were holding the event for. Rather, they were connected to the nonprofit only for access to the high-end chefs that they could provide. Another warning sign that I completely ignored. Their relationship was purely a business deal where the nonprofit provides the chefs and the magazine pays for them with a six-figure donation. And rather than donate the $200,000 themselves, they held an auction to pass along the cost to fine dining aficionados and wealthy subscribers. 

The Details
Invitations for the event were posted on a ticket site and sold to whomever wanted to buy them for $1,500 a pop. Another red flag! The room that night was filled with people who purchased tickets to enjoy a ten-course tasting menu prepared by some of the best chefs in the country. They weren’t buying tickets to donate to a charity. No one in that room had any emotional connection to the cause of helping young chefs attain Michelin stars. They were buying a high end experience, not coming to a fundraising event for their favorite organization. 

The event had a 100 person, or 50 couple, limit and a goal of raising $200,000. This means each couple needed to donate a minimum of $4,000 on top of the $1,500 paid for each ticket. The guest list was not curated at all. Rather they assumed that if couples could afford a $3000 meal, they could afford to spend $10-20k on a high-end auction package. What they didn’t know is that most major donors, don’t just donate because they have the capacity to give, they give big gifts because they have a multi-year relationship with an organization and know the inner workings of the nonprofit (how it is run, board members, transparency, etc).

The Auction
Another rule, which I bent for this occasion, is that I never begin an auction after 9 p.m. People are just too tired, too drunk, or too ready to go home to bid with any sort of enthusiasm. They scheduled the auction portion of the evening to begin at 10 p.m., after the ten-course tasting menu and the many, many glasses of wine that experience entailed. I’m sure you can see where I’m going with this. I remember very clearly one guest who, by the time I took to the stage, had fallen asleep on top of her table using her Chanel purse as a pillow and her fur wrap as a blanket. 

This was also a rare occasion when I agreed to an auction with more than eight items. This auction had twelve. All twelve were amazing. Some of the best things I have ever had the opportunity to sell. These were private dinners prepared by famous chefs. Chefs you see on TV. Chefs who have year long wait lists for their restaurants. Under normal conditions these babies would more than exceed the evening’s fundraising goal. 

But these were not normal conditions. 

The icing on this particularly under-baked cake was that the magazine refused to let me set my own starting bids. Instead, they set every opening bid at $10,000. $10,000! With an audience who was first introduced to the nonprofit that evening and who possessed an overwhelming urge to pass out on table tops, this was never going to work. 

On this night, at this auction, with this group in attendance they barely made half of their fundraising goal. I was up on stage, doing my thing, grasping for any tendril of enthusiasm that I could get my hands on and all I got was crickets. 

No one was bidding. 

It was mortifying. 

At several points, the chef whose dinner was being auctioned at the time grabbed the microphone out of my hand and lowered the price. Because, oh yes, did I fail to mention that the chefs were on stage with me while I was calling the auction for, what essentially amounted to, a private evening with them? They lowered the price on all items to ensure they sold, while also making me look like the worst auctioneer in the world who didn’t even know how to set starting bids. 

The Aftermath
After the event, the fancy magazine blamed everything on me and said I “didn’t bring enough energy,” despite the fact that I advised them to make different decisions regarding crowd size, auction timing, starting bids, and the like through the entire consulting process. It was decided that I hadn’t tried hard enough to get people excited and convince them to spend $10,000 on another fancy dinner.

They asked me to donate my fee to the nonprofit because I failed to meet the fundraising goal and, of course, I would not be getting that feature. 

When I travel for events, as I did for this one, my fee covers my travel expenses. Without it, I have to pay for my travel out of pocket. But I agreed to make the donation, despite the fact that the evening’s failures could have been avoided if they were open to my advice, because I needed the experience to be over.

Lessons Learned
I wish I had trusted my gut. I wish I didn’t let my ego get in the way. I wish I had said no when I saw all these red flags. And more than anything, I am disappointed in myself for taking an auction that I knew had no chance of being successful.

After this experience my advice to nonprofits is:


  • Make sure all the guests in the room have a connection to your organization 
  • Be wary of third party fundraisers 
  • Don’t start your auction after 9 p.m. 
  • Have a connection with your donors 
  • Trust your auctioneer to set opening bids

Have you ever bombed spectacularly at an auction? What did you learn from the experience?
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The Best School Auction Items You’ve Never Heard Of

8/2/2019

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Looking for awesome, fun auction items for your next school auction? These auction items, for both students and parents, rule at school auctions. 

Items for Students
  • Glamping/Camping at school - This could be for families or just the kiddos. Kids spend the night camping out in their classroom/cafeteria/gym supervised by parents/teachers. Complete the evening with pizza, smores, and a movie. 
  • Fire truck rides to school - Who doesn’t want to ride in a fire truck?! 
  • Be the mascot at the game - The winning bidder’s kid gets to dress up as the school mascot during a sporting event.
  • Ride to school in a cool, unusual, fancy car - Requires a parent volunteering to drive the winning child in their cool, fancy car. 
  • Real world experiences for your kid - Veterinarian for day. Pizza maker for a day. Ask local businesses to host a kid for a few hours, and let them do the fun stuff. Scooping ice cream, making pizza, grooming pets, etc.  
  • Naming the class pet - The winning bidder’s kid gets to name the class pet for the year. 
  • Fire drill alarm bell puller - The winning bidder’s child gets to pull the fire alarm with administration supervision.

Items for Parents
  • Home brewed beer - Requires a parent who brews their own beer. Have them donate either a case or a bottle to the live or silent auction. 
  • Front of the line pick-up - Every parent knows that pick-up is a nightmare. Front of the line pick-up is super appealing. The winning parent gets to move to the front of the line for the entire school year. 
  • Vacation package for parents -  Partner this with a night or weekend of babysitting by a beloved teacher.
  • Party at the firehouse - Get a group of ladies together for dinner prepared by your local firemen. Things are sure to heat up.
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